I went through that thought exercise a few years ago, and decided the metals might end up worth more as weapons. If you maneuver a big asteroid into Earth orbi

I went through that thought exercise a few years ago, and decided the metals might end up worth more as weapons. If you maneuver a big asteroid into Earth orbit, you can always just drop chunks of it on the heads of people you don’t like. Basically “rods from God”, but using mass that’s already in space. I wrote a book using that as the premise.